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scription is rather an allusion to the known inscription on the forehead of the high priest, Holiness to the Lord. Whereby is intimated, that this idolatrous persecuting government was an antichristian church, of a temper and spirit quite contrary to the true worship of the one true God. LOWMAN, in loc.

No. 598. xix. 10. I fell at his feet to worship him.] This appears to have been the act of homage usually paid to great men in the East, and which was now performed under impressions more solemn than those which were made by the presence of princes and kings. Mr. Bruce thus describes the ceremony now alluded to: “The next remarkable ceremony in which these two nations (of Persia and Abyssinia) agreed, is that of adoration, inviolably observed in Abyssinia to this day, as often as you enter the sovereign's presence. This is not only kneeling, but absolute prostration; you first fall upon your knees, then upon the palms of your hands, then incline your head and body till your forehead touches the ground, and, in case you have an answer to expect, you lie in that posture till the king, or somebody from him, desires you to rise." (Travels, vol. iii. p. 270.)

No. 599.-xxi. 2. Prepared as a bride.] In the East brides frequently change their dress, and are presented each time they do so to the bridegroom. D'Arvieux gives this account of the Arabs, (Voy. dans la Pal. p. 225.) When the evening is come, the women present the bride to her future husband. The women who conduct her make him a compliment, who answers not a word, sitting perfectly still, with a grave and serious air. This ceremony is three times repeated the same evening; and whenever they change the bride's dress, they present her to the bridegroom, who receives her

always with the same gravity. It is a sort of magnificence in the East, frequently to dress and undress the bride, and to cause her to wear in that same day all the clothes made up for her nuptials. The bridegroom's dress is also frequently changed for the same reason." Au attention to this circumstance throws an energy into the words of St. John, when he speaks of the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride for her husband. HARMER, vol. ii. p. 122.

No. 600.-xxi. 19. Foundations of the wall.] "This is not only a description of what must be exceeding beautiful in its appearance, but is moreover manifestly corresponding with the mode of building amongst the ancient Romans, who, it is well known, constructed their walls from the bottom to the top with alternate layers, or rows of bricks, and of white stone, and sometimes of black flints. Each of these layers was always of a considerable thickness, or breadth; and whilst their different colours formed a beautiful appearance to the eye, and were a most elegant kind of ornament, this mode of placing materials of different dimensions and substance in alternate rows greatly strengthened the work."

KING'S Morsels of Criticism, vol. i. p. 67.

THE END.

FIRST INDEX.

PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE

INCIDENTALLY ILLUSTRATED, OR ALLUDED TO,

IN THIS VOLUME.

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